In this week’s #FeministFriday post, Elle tells us about another woman breaking ground in science! Read on! *** A couple of months ago when I was talking about Dr. Fabiola Gianotti, I focused on how important […]
*** Happy Ada Lovelace Day, one and all! Today’s the day of the year that everybody gets together and celebrates women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Why, you ask? Here goes: Even in the […]
If you’ve heard of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), or even seen the movie Contact (Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, is largely based on Tarter), then you know a little bit about Jill Tarter already. […]
This week’s countdown to Ada Lovelace Day (two weeks to go!) continues with a dual biosketch on Professors Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, co-winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their […]
Ada Lovelace Day is only three weeks away! I was going to write about Maryam Mirzakhani for this post, but my expert mathematician is a little busy for the next week or so, and I’m […]
Ada Lovelace Day is four weeks away, so to celebrate, I’m doing a post each week to celebrate a major female contributor to the STEM fields. Today is Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space (and […]